Posted by Nathanael (admin) on May 12th, 2008 in general
I was planning on just purging my @pureCaffeine account and unprotecting it - but lost interest in that for now, so I’ve created a new account @NathanaelB which will replace my old account (with it’s 10,800 tweets) and will be public. Which means less spontaneity and less quantity of tweets - which means turning my […]
Tags: communication, microblogging, nathanaelb, pureCaffeine, twitter
Posted by Nathanael (admin) on May 5th, 2008 in general
We have this running joke at work about “watering” friendships - effectively the activity of maintaining a friendship with a person by frequent contact, regardless of how meaningful, frivolous, brief or length those conversations are.
Read a few posts about Twitter today - one by Stephen, one by Mark - and got me thinking about how […]
Tags: communication, mpesce, professional, socialnetworks, trib, twitter
Posted by Nathanael (admin) on May 2nd, 2008 in general
Saw this story today mentioned in the Twitter Newsletter about how a student was arrested in Egypt and used Twitter to get assistance via his followers; resulting in the hiring of a lawyer and his release. He mentioned that without being able to notify people back home about the incident it may have been possible […]
Tags: accident, brightkite, critical, dopplr, emergency, incident, twitter
Posted by Nathanael (admin) on April 21st, 2008 in general
Fixes missing tweets problem by automating the unfollow/follow process for people you’re following:
twitter.bodyvisual.com/missing
If you’re security paranoid you can always change your password afterwards
Thanks to Michael Griffith for developing the tool and @goaldeebug for posting the link.
Tags: cache, problem, tool, troubleshooting, tweets, twitter, utility
Posted by Nathanael (admin) on April 8th, 2008 in general
Had a thought this morning: how long have we had Caller ID for? The ability for a callee to see who’s calling them before they answer the phone … a decade? Perhaps more but at least 8 years as that’s when I got my first mobile phone - and it had Caller ID. From memory […]
Tags: change, conversation, culture, generation, phone, social, twitter